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Flag/Mode to be able to draw with "no tile"
It would great if there was a mode (preference setting?) where drawing with "no tile" was supported. There's 2 use cases.
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You want to move some large area.
You've got this:
+-----------+
| A |
|GBCD EF |
+-----------+
And you want to move the ABCD area over one to the right
+----------+
| A |
|GBBCDEF |
+----------+
So you select that area, copy and then stamp but you get this
+----------+
| AA |
|GBBCDEF |
+----------+
Because the "no tile" to the left of the A doesn't erase the old A. Cutting instead of copying doesn't help either because that would mean I'd have to manually put in a B.
2. I want to erase a large non-rectangular area
To do this now I either have to use the 1x1 eraser. Or I have to go around selecting rectangles and cutting them. I'd prefer to just be able to "paint/draw" with "no tile". Then when I'm working I have less keys and modes to remember. I just right click a tile, draw with it, if I want to erase I right click a no tile area, now my brush is "no tile" and I draw and it effectively erases. If I right click and select a larger rectangle of "no tile" I can erase larger areas quicker.
Personally I'd likely always be in this mode. I've almost never needed to select a rectangle of tiles and have the no-tiles not erase tiles that are already there. (case #1). I almost always have to go back and clean up the areas the no-tiles in my stamp of tiles didn't erase.
Does this sound like a useful mode?
I endorse the suggestion above! Also, it would be good to have an outline around the brush (or an option for one) for when you pick up a rectangle of no-tiles to draw with, so you can see how big your selection/brush is.
Actually, simple shading on the no-tile brush tiles, as it does no for non-blank tile brushes would work fine.
Being able to right-click sample an empty tile and erase with it instead of having to switch tools would be a great improvement to staying in the flow. It would also be consistent with how when using the Terrain Brush, you can right-click to select the empty terrain and paint with it.
Being able to stamp empty tiles as part of a larger stamp would also be great, I definitely support such a mode. However, I don't think moving tiles already in the map is a great example of a use case, since you can already cut+paste instead of copy+paste, and since it's something better done by a dedicated tool anyway. This would be useful when stamping details in general.
